desktop

Dear FreeBSD Community, The recording of our most recent October Laptop & Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) call is now available on YouTube: View: https://youtu.be/E2XjKZRUGlE?si=YwfqN6tYQbWVy8Uc Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to the discussion! I'd also like to share an...

Dear community, originally, the next LDWG call was scheduled for September 9 - that overlaps with this year's EuroBSDCon, so we want to select an alternative date that works for the majority. We have set up a brief survey to help identifying the best date for rescheduling the call to another...

Dear FreeBSD Community, This is a friendly reminder that our next Laptop & Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) call is taking place Wednesday, August 12 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM UTC Whether you're a regular participant, an occasional attendee, or simply curious about improving the laptop and...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2026/07/08! For those, who missed it - you can watch the recording on YouTube or check out the slides! View: https://youtu.be/vfpRp233MQE

I recently migrated from Slackware to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE and ported my full suckless desktop environment. Sharing the process and the gotchas for anyone wanting to run dwm + st + dwmblocks on FreeBSD. My dotfiles are at https://github.com/cl45h/dotfiles-freebsd What I'm running - dwm 6.8...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2026/01/14! Thank you also to kpedersen for demo'ing Project Glass! For those, who missed it - you can watch the recording on YouTube or check out the slides. View...

JONSBO Z20 μATX case video (Google Drive) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZp079zvUM WM: picom -- bspwm -- dmenu -- Polybar Components: Intel 12700KF -- G.SKILL RIPJAWS @3600 CL16 -- Sapphire RX 7600 -- ASUS ROG STRIX B760-G GAMING WIFI D4 -- JONSBO Z20 black -- ARCTIC F14 -- bequiet...

Dear community, First of all, a (slightly belated) Happy New Year to everyone! The Laptop & Desktop Workgroup calls have been running for just over a year now, and I think this is a great moment to pause and reflect together. We started strong, with many active participants and great...

Dear community...

I have Tanshi m15c laptop with amd touchpad. The cursor movements are strange: too smooth and sometimes jumpy. This might be because iichid enables sampling mode. Is there a fix for this?

FreeBSD-idesk-linkmaker is a script for getting desktop laucher desktops like icewm, fluxbox, jwm, etc. Packages yad and idesk are required. This script/program is not good, but it is the best available for making idesk launchers. Custom launchers whose desktop files are located somewhere...

Genuine question, does this work on desktops out of the box? Does this work on any hardware?

Select up to 2

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/07/09! There has been some great progress on the Foundation's Laptop project - this call highlights work around graphics by dumbbell@ and progress on sleep states improvements by obiwac@...

Good afternoon, I followed the instructions to install the latest version of the Budgie desktop. I followed the instructions on the website: https://docs.buddiesofbudgie.org/developer/workflow/building-budgie-desktop/ and I installed all the requirements for this latest version, but in the end...

Hello FreeBSD community, Since I updated my FreeBSD last week (and today), Telegram Desktop cannot be started anymore. Before it was simply possible by executing telegram-desktop through CLI or calling it through the shortcut, which of course also doesn't work anymore. The issues started with...

thank you so much to all of you who joined and participated in the Laptop and Desktop Workgroup call on 2025/05/14! This one includes a great introduction to Mark Philipps, the Foundation's new technical marketing manager! There's some great progress, particularly from the Foundation's Laptop...

For example, if I try pressing Fn+F11 to raise my volume, it just doesn't work. I've tried using cat to see if it returns any escape code (?) for any of those fn+F... keys, and it didn't display anything for some reason. It's as if I hadn't pressed any key at all in the first place. What's going...

I am Currently running FreeBSD 14.2 I am unable to get Nvidia GT215 working with Nvidia-driver-340. I am running Lumina-desktop which also crashes at times. inxi Device: Nvidia GT215. driver: vgapci Display server: X.org 1.21.1.14 driver: loaded: nv resolution 1920x1200...

Good moorning, I need help for install COSMIC desktop on FreeBSD I need the instructions, please Thanks